A fast-moving wildfire pushed by Santa Ana winds raced through the canyons and mountains of this wealthy enclave for the second time in little more than a month Saturday, destroying 49 homes and forcing as many as 14,000 residents to flee. ...more

November 25, 2007

Clark Elementary students' jaws dropped when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement helicopter approached to make a landing on the school's baseball field last week. ...more

November 21, 2007

Turkish helicopters swooped into Iraqi territory Tuesday, Iraqi officials said, firing on villages in renewed pressure to dislodge Turkish Kurd guerrillas from bases in northern Iraq used to stage cross-border raids. ...more

November 14, 2007

Former Sunni insurgents asked Americans to stay away, then ambushed members of al-Qaida in Iraq, killing 18 in a battle that raged for hours north of Baghdad, an ex-insurgent leader and Iraqi police said Saturday. ...more

November 11, 2007

A daring ambush of bombs and gunfire left Poland's ambassador burned and pinned down in a flaming vehicle Wednesday before he was pulled to safety and airlifted in a rescue mission by the embattled security company Blackwater USA. ...more

October 4, 2007

A year after 10 of their female classmates were shot, some boys who escaped unharmed from West Nickel Mines Amish School are tormented by guilt, according to the co-author of a new book about the massacre. ...more

September 23, 2007

A squadron of 10 airplanes and helicopters began a fourth day Thursday of a frustrating search for missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, whose small plane disappeared over Nevada's rugged high desert. ...more

September 8, 2007

Search teams dramatically expanded their hunt for adventurer Steve Fossett to encompass 10,000 square miles of rugged mountains and desert Thursday after nearly four discouraging days yielded no trace of his single-engine plane. ...more

September 7, 2007